Journal of Hebrew Scriptures
ISSN 1203-1542

List of Reviews (by volume)

(for reviews by author click here)

Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5

Volume 6

 

Volume 6 (2006-2007)

 

Nardoni, Enrique, Rise Up, O Judge: A Study of Justice in the Biblical World (trans. Seán Charles Martin; Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 2004). (click here)
Kessler, Martin, ed., Reading the Book of Jeremiah: A Search for Coherence (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2004). (click here)
Fidler, Ruth, “Dreams Speak Falsely”? Dream Theophanies in the Bible: Their Place in Ancient Israelite Faith and Traditions (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2005). (click here)
Young, Ian, ed., Biblical Hebrew: Studies in Chronology and Typology (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 369; London/New York: T.&T.Clark, 2003). (Second Review - click here)
Stulman, Louis, Jeremiah (Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries; Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005). (click here)
Flint, Peter W. and Patrick D. Miller, eds., with the assistance of A. Brunell and R. Roberts, The Book of Psalms: Composition and Reception (Vetus Testamentum Supplements, 99; Formation and Interpretation of Old Testament Literature, 4; Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005). (click here)
Simundson, Daniel L., Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah (Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries; Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005).  (click here)
Revell, E. J., The Designation of the Individual:  Expressive Usage in Biblical Narrative (Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology, 14; Kampen:  Kok Pharos, 1996). (click here)
Hayes, John H., ed., Hebrew Bible: History of Interpretation (Nashville: Abingdon, 2004). (click here)

 

Volume 5 (2004-2005)

 

Brueggemann, Walter, Worship in Ancient Israel: An Essential Guide (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005). (click here)
Milgrom, Jacob, Leviticus: A Book of Ritual and Ethics (Continental Commentary; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004). (click here)
Nigosian, S. A., From Ancient Writings to Sacred Texts: The Old Testament and Apocrypha (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 2004). (click here)
Assis, Elie, Self-Interest or Communal Interest: An Ideology of Leadership in the Gideon, Abimelech and Jephthah Narratives (Judg 6-12) (Vetus Testamentum Supplements, 106; Leiden\Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005). (click here)
Tetley, M. Christine, The Reconstructed Chronology of the Divided Kingdom (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2005). (click here)
Dille, Sarah J., Mixing Metaphors: God as Mother and Father in Deutero-Isaiah (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 398; Gender, Culture, Theory, 13; London/New York: T & T Clark International, 2004). (click here)
Fokkelman, J. P., Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible. At the Interface of Prosody and Structural Analysis. Volume IV: Job 15 – 42 (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, vol. 47; Assen, The Netherlands: Royal Van Gorcum, 2004). (click here)
Anderson, Robert T. and Terry Giles, Tradition Kept: The Literature of the Samaritans (Peabody: Hendrickson, 2005). (click here)
Smith, Mark S., The Memoirs of God: History, Memory and the Experience of the Divine in Ancient Israel (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004). (click here)
Heller, Roy L., Narrative Structure and Discourse Constellations: An Analysis of Clause Function in Biblical Hebrew Prose.  (Harvard Semitic Studies 55; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2004). (click here)
Lohfink, Norbert, Qoheleth (A Continental Commentary; trans. Sean McEvenue; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003). (click here)
Flannery-Dailey, Frances, Dreamers, Scribes, and Priests: Jewish Dreams in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 90; Leiden\Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004). (click here)
Talshir Z. and D. Amara, eds., On the Border Line. Textual Meets Literary Criticism. Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Alexander Rofé on the Occasion of  his Seventieth Birthday (Beer-Sheva 18; Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2005). (click here)
Becking, Bob, Between Fear and Freedom. Essays on the Interpretation of Jeremiah 30-31(Oudtestamentische Studiën 51; Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004). (click here)
Bregman, Marc, The Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: Studies in the Evolution of the Versions (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003).  (click here)
Fitzpatrick, Paul E., S.M., The Disarmament of God: Ezekiel 38-39 in Its Mythic Context.  (The Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series, 37; Washington: The Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2004) (click here)
Kalimi, Isaac, An Ancient Israelite Historian: Studies in the Chronicler, His Time, Place and Writing (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 46; Assen: Van Gorcum, 2005). (click here)
Kalimi, Isaac, The Reshaping of Ancient Israelite History in Chronicles (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2005. (click here)
Meyers, Carol, Households and Holiness: The Religious Culture of Israelite Women (Facets; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005). (click here)
LaCocque, André, Ruth (trans. K. C. Hanson; A Continental Commentary; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004). (click here)
Campbell, Anthony F. Joshua to Chronicles An Introduction (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2004). (click here)
Gordon, R. P. and J. C. de Moor, eds., The Old Testament in Its World (Oudtestamentische Studiën 52; Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005). (click here)
Schmitt, Rüdiger, Magie im Alten Testament (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 313; Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2004). (click here)
Johnston, Philip S.  Shades of Sheol: Death and Afterlife in the Old Testament (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2002). (click here)
Gilders, William K., Blood Ritual in the Hebrew Bible: Meaning and Power (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). (click here)
Reeves, John C., ed. Bible and Qur’an: Essays in Scriptural Intertextuality (Society of Biblical Literature Symposium Series 24; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003).  (click here)
Claassens, L. Juliana M., The God who Provides: Biblical Images of Divine Nourishment (Nashville: Abingdon, 2004). (click here)
Cook Stephen L. and Corrine L. Patton, eds., Ezekiel’s Hierarchical World: Wrestling with a Tiered Reality (Society of Biblical Literature Symposium Series 31; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Press, 2004). (click here)
Schneider, Tammi J., Sarah: Mother of Nations (New York/London: Continuum, 2004). (click here)
Kim, Hyun Chul Paul, Ambiguity, Tension, and Multiplicity in Deutero-Isaiah (Studies in Biblical Literature, 52; New York: Peter Lang, 2003). (click here)
Klein, Lillian, From Deborah to Esther: Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003). (click here)
Collins, John J., Introduction to the Hebrew Bible with CD-ROM (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004). (click here)
Magness, Jodi, The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002). (click here)
Young, Ian, ed. Biblical Hebrew: Studies in Chronology and Typology (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 369; London/New York: T. & T. Clark, 2003). (click here)
Borodowski, Alfredo Fabio, Isaac Abravanel on Miracles, Creation, Prophecy and Evil: The Tension Between Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Biblical Commentary (Studies in Biblical Literature 53; New York: Peter Lang, 2003). (click here)
Hutton, Rodney R., Fortress Introduction to the Prophets (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004). (click here)
Schellenberg, Annette, Erkenntnis als Problem: Qohelet und die alttestamentliche Diskussion um das menschliche Erkennen (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 188; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002). (click here)
Szpek, Heidi M., ed. Voices from the University: The Legacy of the Hebrew Bible (New York\Lincoln\Shanghai: Writers Club Press, 2002). (click here)
G. W. Lorein, The Antichrist Theme in the Intertestamental Period (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series, 44; London/New York: T&T Clark, 2003). (click here)
Shepherd, David, Targum and Translation: A Reconsideration of the Qumran Aramaic Version of Job (Assen, Neth: Van Gorcum, 2004). (click here)
Sweeney, Marvin A. and